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Today โ€” 27 August 2025WPR

Wisconsin LGBTQ+ mental health resources face funding challenges

27 August 2025 at 17:56

Although the 988 โ€œpress 3โ€ option has ended, the lifeline itself is still operational and available for LGBTQ+ youth to call.ย 

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Gov. Tony Evers requests presidential disaster declaration for Wisconsin flooding

27 August 2025 at 17:16

Gov. Tony Evers formally requested a presidential disaster declaration from President Donald Trump Wednesday, seeking federal help for flooding damage in six Wisconsin counties.

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DNR can require CAFO permits to protect water, appeals court rules

27 August 2025 at 15:27

A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that state environmental regulators can require large livestock farms to obtain permits that seek to prevent manure spills and protect state waters.ย 

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โ€˜A loss for our communityโ€™: Sheboygan hospital plans to shut down inpatient psychiatric beds

27 August 2025 at 10:02

The hospital is planning to stop offering inpatient psychiatric care at Aurora Sheboygan and use the space to create additional inpatient medical surgical bed capacity.

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US Rep. Gwen Moore warns of โ€˜tyrannyโ€™ in Trump administrationโ€™s actions

26 August 2025 at 22:08

โ€œI am not exaggerating this: We are going the way of other sort of oligarchs and tyrannies in the world resembling them,โ€ Moore told WPRโ€™s โ€œWisconsin Today.โ€ โ€œThis is what it looks like.โ€

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Wisconsin Democrats put forth bill to reauthorize stateโ€™s land purchase program

26 August 2025 at 19:03

Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers are introducing a bill to reauthorize the stateโ€™s land purchase program at $72 million annually over the next six years and create a board to oversee spending on conservation projects.

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Milwaukee momโ€™s grief leads her to meeting the man who killed her son

26 August 2025 at 19:00

Debra Gillispieโ€™s grief journey took her from outrage and a mission to shut down a bar, to driving across the country and back, to 20 years of leading local advocacy and reform efforts, and ultimately, to the prison thatโ€™s holding the man who killed her son.

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Pocan-Van Orden feud escalates as others call for an end to bitter political attacks

By: Lorin Cox
26 August 2025 at 18:27

Two Wisconsin Congressmen are engaged in an ongoing, public feud that has escalated to personal attacks online and an in-person quarrel that was captured on camera.

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Criminal case against Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan will move forward, court rules

26 August 2025 at 17:48

The case against Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan will move forward following a federal court ruling. Dugan is accused of helping a man evade ICE by ushering him through a side door of her courtroom.

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Yesterday โ€” 26 August 2025WPR

Wisconsin researchers sound alarm after US Supreme Court upholds DEI-related research cuts

26 August 2025 at 10:01

A week before students return to campus, a UW-Milwaukee neuroscientist said she has to call the students back โ€œand tell them, โ€˜Oh, sorry, this is actually now not happening.'โ€

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New head of Milwaukee Public Schools wants to rebuild community trust. Itโ€™s an uphill battle.

26 August 2025 at 10:01

The school district has long struggled with the same issues plaguing urban school districts across the nation, including declining enrollment, rising absenteeism and funding deficits. Recently, MPS was beset by a financial scandal followed by a lead crisis.

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Superior switches on Wisconsinโ€™s first city-owned broadband network

26 August 2025 at 10:00

ConnectSuperior began making high-speed broadband service available to residents earlier this month with the completion of its fiber optic infrastructure, though the city itself isnโ€™t the internet provider.

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Chicago-based authorโ€™s new thriller, โ€˜Guess Againโ€™ is set across Wisconsin

25 August 2025 at 20:53

Author Charlie Donleaโ€™s newest book, โ€œGuess Again,โ€ hit the shelves earlier this summer. The author is based in Chicago, but the book takes place all over Wisconsin, whose small lake communities Donlea grew up visiting.

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Wisconsin students in limbo waiting for fellowship money from Department of Education

25 August 2025 at 19:08

The fall semester for the Universities of Wisconsin campuses starts next week. But at least 50 students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee still donโ€™t know if theyโ€™ll be able to attend class.ย 

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